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Purple lace cake at The Grand Connaught Rooms

On April 14, 2013 / Cake design, Home, Photography / 4 Comments

Purple Lace Cake at The Grand Connaught Rooms The wedding season is here, hooray! Now all the sketches in the book can come to life, and here is the first I’m blogging (need to catch up). Being in London means I (or we) get to deliver wedding cakes to all sorts of different venues, some are stately, modern, simple, ornate and sometimes we’re even lucky enough to only have to deliver 10 minutes away to The Grand Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden. With it’s high ceilings, gorgeous chequered reception floor and beautiful chandeliers, The Grand Connaught Rooms is a popular

Strawberry Dessert Table

On March 22, 2013 / Home / Leave a comment

Late last summer, I set up a little dessert strawberry dessert table for friends and family to enjoy in our local park. It was blogged by the lovely Sam from A Little London Wedding with my how-to’s. The minute after I finished taking these photos, the heavens opened and it started pouring down with rain. That’s London for you. I never did share all the photos so now that its spring, here they are! The cake was based on some beautiful strawberry variations I’d seen online while I was doing research, a few variations I came across had pink flowers.

Cascading flower wedding cake

On January 16, 2013 / Home / Leave a comment

I wanted to do a classical style 5 tiered cake, and you can’t get any more classical than a cascading rose wedding cake. I added some lilies, peonies, ranunculus, and some fantasy flowers to make it a little bit different. The pearl dot piping gives it a bit of texture, and a teeny weeny bit of vintage. These were my first lilies, and with most things I do I didn’t use a cutter, I hand cut the flower paste using real lilies as a guide and worked from there. After drying, dusting, and painting, they were wired together and finished

Funfair Wedding Cake – Candystripe

On January 12, 2013 / Cake design, Home, Photography / Leave a comment

Candy stripe, funfair, pale pink, baby blue, ruffles; it a description of cute, distilled. I was so excited to start on this fairground cake project. My original sketch was actually slightly different, it featured a marshmallow style heart and ruffled swags. The ruffles sort of got transferred to the cake board which, I warn you in advance, took a long time. I did actually make it and attached it but it didn’t look right so I opted for a fabric, ruffle type flower and the addition of stars. The ‘Roll Up’ was hand-cut and stuck to the plaque which was

Rockabilly Wedding Cake ♡ London

On January 7, 2013 / Cake design, Home / Leave a comment

Another of my favourites wedding cakes of 2012 was this rockabilly jubilee cake. It was for the lovely Gwenda of The Vintage Floral Design Company, with whom I’d worked with on the bright dessert table shoot. Her cake fell through and so I was (gleefully) on hand to design the replacement. I knew her cake would be something special, and after going through the inspiration photos and description, we came up with the 3-tier rockabilly cake featuring the jubilee colours. It a cute tattoo style cake that is pretty alternative, and I have a thing about rockabilly weddings. The swallows

Mint Cioccolata Calda

On December 27, 2012 / Home, Photography, Recipes / Leave a comment

If you haven’t had a real Italian hot chocolate, you need to get on this chocolate gravy train. And a thick chocolate gravy, as unappealing as it sounds, is a pretty accurate description of the feel of this drink. Its a perfect warm up in the winter weather, so cosy up to your central heating with it. This is not an after dinner drink, this is dinner! After I have this I can’t fit anything else in. And that is truly a feat of the most epic proportions. The recipe is supposed to serve two, but I can’t finish a

Vintage Lace Wedding Cake {London}

On December 20, 2012 / Cake design, Home, Photography / Leave a comment

So not long after saying I preferred the piped lace style, I have a bride who is in love with a cake by Cotton and crumbs, based on a design by Peggy Porschen. You still following me? Its an ivory cake with white lace applique, everyone loves white on white wedding cakes. Very romantic and very vintage. I tend to deliver cakes assembled, so this four tier was taken as is. No, I am way to feeble and out of shape to lift cakes like this. My hefty husband does my deliveries, sometimes alone, but today I decided to accompany

Russian Nautical Cake

On December 17, 2012 / Cake design, Photography / 1 Comment

The last cake of 2012 had a Russian, nautical theme. The beautiful bride was Russian and both her and her new husband are both keen sailors. Their wedding cermeony was even close to the River Thames! I drew up the sketch on the computer and let her make any corrections or modifications at the consultation. She added the swag piping and gold detailing which made it even more regal. The top and bottom tiers were Vanilla bean cake with berry Italian meringue and the middle tier was dark chocolate with a caramel Italian buttercream. The swags are piped by hand

Truffles. What to do with left over ganache.

On December 12, 2012 / Recipes / Leave a comment

After ganaching a cake, I sometime have a bit left that I don’t want to throw away. Its usually only a few tablespoons so I make little home made truffles with them. Ganache also freezes very well and can sit at room temperature for a few days, or so I heard from a Chocolatier. A firm ganache is exactly what truffles are, and if you use a good quality dark chocolate they’ll taste just as good (if not better) then what you can get from the shops. So when you have some firm 2:1 chocolate ganache left over, just scoop,

Joining BlogLovin!

On December 9, 2012 / Home / Leave a comment

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